Chapter II. — Plan of campaign formed by the sponsors of the Opposition, friends of the Government. — How the working plebs, following for the first time its own idea, formed in its own mind, makes its calculations. — Numerical results of the vote: meaning of the Peasants' vote 5

Chapter VI. — Power of the mutualist idea; universality of application. — How the most elementary principle of morals tends to become the foundation of economic right and the pivot of new institutions. — First example: insurance 75

Chapter VII. — Economic law of supply and demand. — Correction of that law by the principle of mutuality 81

Chapter VIII. — Application of the principle of mutuality to labor and to wages. — Of true commerce and agiotage 8l

Chapter IV. — On municipal freedom: That this freedom, essentially federalist and incompatible with the unitary system, cannot be reclaimed by the Opposition nor brought into accord with imperial Government 226

Chapter V. — The budget. — Impossibility of a normal tax, with the political system followed by the Opposition and the Government. — Amortization, endowments, pensions, salaries, military, railways, etc. — MM. Thiers, Berryer, J. Favre, and the so-called democratic Opposition 238

Chapter VI. — Freedom of the press. — Right of assembly and association: their incompatibility with the unitary system 261

Chapter VII. — Public instruction. — That the instruction of the people, such as they have a right to, is incompatible with the economico-political system adopted by the Opposition and the Government. — Conditions for a democratic education 278

Chapter VIII. — That the guarantee of labor and exchange is incompatible with the unitary system. — How political centralisation and capitalist and mercantile feudalism are allied against the workers' emancipation and the progress of the middle classes. — Free-trade conspiracy 291